{"id":2747,"date":"2024-11-19T15:42:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2024-11-19T15:42:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:42:21","slug":"how-to-prepare-for-final-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/how-to-prepare-for-final-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prepare for Final Exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1. <\/span><b>Know<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> what will be covered in the exam\u2014are questions primarily from lectures, the textbook, or outside readings? \u00a0Is it cumulative?\u00a0 \u00a0What types of questions will it include\u2014 essay, short answer, multiple choice? Do the questions focus on main themes, details, or both? Ask your professor tactfully about the exam. \u00a0Do not say, \u201cWhat\u2019s going to be on the exam?\u201d \u00a0Instead, try something like, \u201cWhat are the most important concepts I need to review?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2. <b>Review<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> course exams you have taken this semester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>3.<b> Create<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a summary sheet of the course\u2019s most significant information. This strategy provides an excellent focus for you as you review your readings and lecture notes. Then, reconstruct your summary sheet from memory. Do your best and, if you get stuck, review the original summary sheet, picture it in your mind, and construct it again\u2014from scratch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>4.<b> Space<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> out your study sessions over as many days as possible, i.e. two hours of study, four days in a row, is far more efficient for your long term memory storage than eight hours in one study session.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5.<\/span><b> Form<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> study groups (with serious, like-minded students), divide course material, and take turns instructing each other. \u00a0Then, make up exam questions and essay topics and discuss your responses as a group.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Know what will be covered in the exam\u2014are questions primarily from lectures, the textbook, or outside readings? \u00a0Is it cumulative?\u00a0 \u00a0What types of questions will it include\u2014 essay, short answer, multiple choice? Do the questions focus on main themes, details, or both? Ask your professor tactfully about the exam. \u00a0Do not say, \u201cWhat\u2019s going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skills-for-academic-success"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2748,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}